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Page 139
... Guenevere had intoxicated him , draining his heart dry , and incapacitating him henceforth to enjoy any purer or simpler breath of love - what might have been ! And peradventure , had he seen her first , She THE SPHINX . 139.
... Guenevere had intoxicated him , draining his heart dry , and incapacitating him henceforth to enjoy any purer or simpler breath of love - what might have been ! And peradventure , had he seen her first , She THE SPHINX . 139.
Page 140
... Guenevere craved , and which alone can fully ex- tenuate or explain their guilt . If ever Lancelot , that most noble knight , Were for one hour less noble than himself , Pray for him that he ' scape the doom of fire , And weep for her ...
... Guenevere craved , and which alone can fully ex- tenuate or explain their guilt . If ever Lancelot , that most noble knight , Were for one hour less noble than himself , Pray for him that he ' scape the doom of fire , And weep for her ...
Page 141
... Guenevere is depicted , will enable us to analyze the elements out of which this dissimilarity arises , and to compare the effects which the old romance has had upon two purely poetic , but very differ- ently constituted , minds of our ...
... Guenevere is depicted , will enable us to analyze the elements out of which this dissimilarity arises , and to compare the effects which the old romance has had upon two purely poetic , but very differ- ently constituted , minds of our ...
Page 142
... Guenevere at once ! He reaches the thorn - tree in the early dawn , and , sick and faint lays his head upon a tomb , " not knowing it was Arthur's . " Guenevere , too , had been yearning all night for the appointed meeting , until with ...
... Guenevere at once ! He reaches the thorn - tree in the early dawn , and , sick and faint lays his head upon a tomb , " not knowing it was Arthur's . " Guenevere , too , had been yearning all night for the appointed meeting , until with ...
Page 144
... Guenevere's own . But after all , " quoth Reginald , as he wound up the argument , " intensely human as all this is , we yet walk blindly and in the dark . The most searching , and penetrating , and brilliant faculty can but faintly ...
... Guenevere's own . But after all , " quoth Reginald , as he wound up the argument , " intensely human as all this is , we yet walk blindly and in the dark . The most searching , and penetrating , and brilliant faculty can but faintly ...
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Page 15 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 146 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 246 - The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea; And, musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free; For, standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Page 325 - Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow. Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Page 288 - In the white curtain, to and fro, She saw the gusty shadow sway. But when the moon was very low, And wild winds bound within their cell, The shadow of the poplar fell Upon her bed, across her brow. She only said, " The night is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, " I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!
Page 292 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave?
Page 177 - Leave thou thy sister when she prays Her early heaven, her happy views ; Nor thou with shadow'd hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. Her faith thro' form is pure as thine, Her hands are quicker unto good.
Page 166 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 414 - Contemplating Spain, such as our ancestors had known her, I resolved that if France had Spain, it should not be Spain ' with the Indies.' I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.
Page 318 - The great problem of the shifting relation between passion and duty is clear to no man who is capable of apprehending it : the question whether the moment has come in which a man has fallen below the possibility of a renunciation that will carry any efficacy, and must accept the sway of a passion against which he had struggled as a trespass, is one for which we have no master-key that will fit all cases.